Thursday, August 25, 2011

short shorts

There's a pandemic of short shorts around here--on the guys. Mid-thigh length shorts is creepers. They need another 4 inches on the hem, please. I feel like going up to them and singing:

8 comments:

M said...

We have a picture of my uncle on his tractor, wearing shorts so short you can't see them because of the wheel guards on the tractor. It looks like he's bushhogging in the buff. I think it's a southern thing.

Vanessa Swenson said...

{shudder}

Kimberly said...

It's the same way here!! In fact, it's proving difficult to even buy decent shorts for Josh, let alone avoid seeing the thighs of what seem to even be the cool boys? I mean, it's hard for me to take them seriously dressed like that, but no one else seems to mind.

Vanessa Swenson said...

Agreed, the guy thigh is meant to be hidden. It's like the Shorts Lengthening Revolution of the early 90s never happened. I mean, come on, it coincided with the fall of communism. That's gotta be something.

rantipoler said...

They do it here, too!! And the shorts are always really preppy, like salmon-colored, or with little embroidered flamingos on them. Seriously! You can't make this stuff up.

Vanessa Swenson said...

flamingos hahahahah

Marie said...

Why did the eighties have to come back in style?!?

Vanessa Swenson said...

I've got a hunch that this length of shorts has been steady since the 80s. I have no proof of this, it's just instinct after 1 month of living here. I guess all I can do is hope for a better future.